Century Quotes - Page 21

Remember, there are only a few model preachers. We have read of only one perfect Model, and He was crucified many centuries ago.

that your power of command with simple language was one of the magnificent things of our century. (from the poem: result)

The ruins of the unsustainable are the 21st century’s frontier.

I am one of those people who deeply resents not having been born in the 19th century, when there were still open places to explore.

The thriller is the cardinal twentieth-century form. All it, like the twentieth century, wants to know is: Who's Guilty?

My big hobby is photography. I collect stereo photographs from the 19th century.

Over the centuries, monumental upheavals in science have emerged time and again from following the leads set out by mathematics.

If more people had put their fellow human beings before abstractions last century, we shouldn't be where we are now.

I'm a 21st-century kid trapped in a 19th-century family.

The world is a colony of the US. The twentieth century was the US's century.

The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century.

He who anticipates his century is generally persecuted when living, and always pilfered when dead.

Boxing is changing and training methods are slowly being dragged into the 21st century.

...but in every century, and ever since England has been what it is, an Englishman has always felt somewhat ashamed of his own emotion and of his own sympathy.

[T]he obverse of facile emotion in the 14th century was a general insensitivity to the spectacle of pain and death.

That the Jews were unholy was a belief so ingrained by the Church [by the 14th century] that the most devout persons were the harshest in their antipathy, none more so than St. Louis.

Indeed, we Jews were at the leading edge of communist totalitarianism, one of the most murderous movements of the 20th century.

The United States has been a Pacific nation for over two centuries. That's not going to change.

The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

I've always been in love with the movies. They're the dreams of the 20th Century.

Barchester Towers has become one of those novels which do not die quite at once, which live and are read for perhaps a quarter of a century.

We need to invest in peoples lives so that they can do the jobs of the 21st century.

We are about half a century away from being ecologically and economically bankrupt because of global warming

There is absolutely nothing democratic about the "global arrangement" through which the West has been ruling over the rest of the world for decades and centuries.

For centuries, the question of men needing to comprehend women simply didn't arise. Men were valued according to how they measured up to the manly virtues.